My 13 Favorite Actors

I’m an IMDB fanatic.
I have their app on my phone and iPad so I can quickly check who played that guy in that one movie or who voiced the animated guinea pig in that other one. I LOVE IMDB.
That said, I have a few actors that I like more than others. Some not because they’re hot but because they’re quirky or played in a movie I adore. So in the interest of spawning discussion with my readers here is my list of my favorite actors in no particular order.

Crispin is quite simply the quirkiest actor ever. If you don’t believe me, watch Willard. He’s capable of being creepy, funny or both (see Hot Tub Time Machine)! But the movie that put Mr. Glover into my favorite list is an old, weirdddd movie called Rubin and Ed about a multi-level salesman (played by Howard Hesseman) who is trying to bring in another convert to his sales cult. Most of the movie involves the quest to find the perfect spot to bury Rubin’s dead cat, a cat that he’s kept in his freezer up until now. The movie with its ridiculously tall platform shoes just makes me laugh, and laugh, and oh gosh, laugh at its absurdity.

I recall seeing the first Lord of the Rings movie at midnight on opening day and thinking of Agent Smith’s famous line from the Matrix: “Tell me, Mr. Anderson… what good is a phone call… if you’re unable to speak?” when Elrond appeared. It was terribly distracting.
But then I saw V for Vendetta and that all changed! Hugo earned a permanent spot on my favorites list for his absolutely perfect enunciation of the introductory speech to Evey. And I’ll never again associate him solely with Agent Smith. And this is one actor who isn’t afraid to dress up a little. Check him out as the gorgeous drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

It’s thanks to Walken’s many appearances on Saturday Night Live that he’s earned a place on this list. Skits like The Continental, Bruce Dickinson, and Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic will always be classics. He’s also great as the floating dancer in Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice video. And I loved him as the South American crime lord in the Run Down.

I’m not really into southern boys but Timothy is the exception. He came to my attention as the marshall in HBO’s Deadwood (why, oh why did they cancel that!?). And now I watch him as the Marshall on TNT’s Justified. He does a GREAT lawman!

While we’re on the subject of Draculas, Mr. Roxburgh has also had a turn at playing the vampire in Van Helsing. But that’s not why he’s on my list. Richard made it into the list thanks to his forehead-vein-popping Duke in Moulin Rouge. I just love me a bad guy and he’s a good one in this.

“The Rock” is in my list partially because he’s so damn hunky (and built) but because he makes me laugh. Check him out in Rundown with another member of this list (Walken) as well as cute family films like The Game Plan and The Tooth Fairy. But really, just look at those muscles. That’s really all that needs to be said.

Speaking of ab baring, this next guy on the list is a fellow Spartan, he played Stelios in 300. But I have to admit, with a degree of shame, that the reason Mr. Fassbender is on this list is because of a certain BBC young adult show called Hex. He played Azazeal. And oh. He’s good. You can also see him in the most recent X-Men movie playing Magneto. Sorry Sir Ian, but he’s a way better Magneto. And I’m almost breathlessly awaiting the video release of Jane Eyre staring him as Rochester because it never released in my small city.

Look at those eyes! Joseph has my favorite intense gaze. Ever. The role that shot Mr. Fiennes into my favorite list is Adam in Killing me Softly, a movie that might as well be softcore porn. But I simply loved how obsessive in love the two main characters were and it certainly helped that Joseph is HOT in it. Oh, and I guess he’s was pretty good in that Shakespeare in Love movie too 😉 Now he’s playing Merlin in the Camelot series on Starz.

Mr. Depp is my favorite actor. Period. Not because he’s hot, which, of course he is, but because of the wild range of roles he’s had. Considering Tim Burton is my favorite movie director, you can probably understand why I love Johnny Depp. In any case, I’m not going to bore you or insult your intelligence with a list of my favorite roles.

Honorable Mentions

I’m positive I’m forgetting worthy people in the list above but as I’ve been working on this list for HOURS, I figure it’s a good time to stop. I’m sure there will be an addendum in the future. In the meantime, here are some honorable mentions.

This one is a little hard to explain. I’d say Arnold’s presence in this list is an example of how I love the villains in movies. He played the mummy (High Priest Imhotep) in the The Mummy movie and oh, how unexpectedly sexy was that? He’s also a better Darkman than the original Darkman.

I have to admit that this guy is on the list simply because he’s hot, or at least he was hot twenty years ago. I think I first saw him in the movie Mambo Kings. Mm, sexy Latin guy. Yeah, I can dig it. In any case, you might also like him in the mini-series romance Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story, he plays Napoleon of course. Lately he’s played small (but amusing) roles in the series Chuck.

4 thoughts on “My 13 Favorite Actors”

You’ve seen Willard too? Thought we might have been the only ones.
Of course, Johnny Depp is our number one too. Tim Burton is also our favourite director so the two of them with Helena Bonham Carter is a massive bonus! And of course he’s hot and quirky. And those cheekbones… Must stop before the image of him covered in chocolate spams our inbox again. Damn. Too late. (our cousin was one of the set modellers for Corpse Bride)

good lord! How on earth did you manage to list almost every single one of my fav guy actors, too? It’s spooky! Missed Vin and Sean Bean, though.
Roxburgh stole Van Helsing out from under Hugh Jackman – he was awesome as Dracula. “That is not all I could do with your skin” oh my…
Oldman is honestly part chameleon; the way he can change for each role is nothing short of magical.
Vosloo? Great bad guy and the look on his face when he realises he has been buried alive for thousands of years and she doesn’t love him enough to try to save him? Gah!